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Just as hilarious as the first outing by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell by Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne

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Last year Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne released, and I reviewed, Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell.  It was a hysterical twisting of fantasy tropes that had my husband and I literally laughing out loud while reading.  This year they put out another book set in Pell, No Country for Old Gnomes.  The nifty thing about these two books is they are standalone.  You do not need to have read Kill the Farm Boy to read No Country for Old Gnomes, this is not a continuation but a separate story.  However, a few characters from Farm Boy appear in […]

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7/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 19 |

More Puns, Less Poop Please

Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

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If you like potty humor, read this. You can’t go 2 pages without poop. On rare occasion peeing or farting might be substituted. This novel is basically a parody of the Princess Bride, except that Wesley or rather Worstley (brother of Bestley) gets pancaked by an Amazonian-like warrior who really likes rose gardening named Fia. She falls on him and for once the realistic thing happens even though Worstley may be the Chosen One thanks to Staph the Pixie. But since there is magic in this world, Fia hopes maybe he can be revived. So she takes up the quest […]

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8/5/2018 | Post by

Read this for all the sick Mr. Rochester burns.

My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies, #2) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #2 out of 11 I didn’t like this one as much as My Lady Jane (mostly because it wasn’t as funny), but overall I still had a really fun time listening to it. I mean, really, the standards were ridiculously high, first of all because I do think the first book was just plain funnier, but also because a) They had to live up to that all that funny and maybe the story they were telling this time didn’t lend itself as well (shifting as a concept is more hilarious by nature than […]

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An Anatomy of Drew Hayes, but also review of Going Rogue

Going Rogue by Drew Hayes

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There are 3 kinds of Drew Hayes books: a) the novels that as complete books are 600+ pages long, have short chapters, and are fairly episodic (ie Super Powereds), b) the novels that are structured more like novels with chapter longer than 1-2 pages and not epic in length (Spells, Swords, & Stealth), and c) the novels that are average in length (under 300 pages) and set up like a series of short stories (Fred the Vampire Accountant). While some of the distinctions come from some titles being originally web-novels while others are traditionally published, one of the more interesting […]

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6/4/2018 | Post by

Hilarious takedown of pop feminism

How To Win at Feminism by Reductress

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This year, my book club did a Book Swap for our December/Christmas meeting. We’ve done a Friendsgiving for a few years in a row, but this was the first time we’d done anything for Christmas. J, F’s husband, insisted that he was going to do his own book swap and get books for all of us. None of us took him seriously, until we arrived at his and F’s house and sure enough, there was a wrapped present with a label in his handwriting for each of us. After the official swap, he passed out his presents to each of […]

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12/28/2017 | Post by

I Can Smell the Privilege from Here

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck by Sarah Knight

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Best for: People who care too much about what other people think (but also aren’t in any real danger if they think ill of them) In a nutshell: In this parody of the Marie Kondo book, Ms. Knight provides a method for prioritizing your life (and the fucks you give). Line that sticks with me: “Personal policies are definitely the way to go in this scenario. They are mysterious and they tend to make people a little bit uncomfortable and really shut down the conversation.” Why I chose it: I run a blog with an expletive in the title that […]

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Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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This is the sixth in my series of posts wherein I write reviews for classic books in the form of letters to the characters. I’m re-reading all of Jane Austen’s books in 2016, and now I’m almost to the end. I was originally supposed to read Northanger Abbey in September, but due to the I’m sure hilarious from afar neverending comedy of errors that is my life right now, I didn’t get to it until October, and pushed writing the review until the last possible minute. Anyways, I’d only read this one once before, and I was much dumber at the time, so I […]

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He really is, though…

Tim Kaine is Your Nice Dad by Sara Benincasa

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Warning – this post is political in nature, and a little bit of my … ahem… anger? Disappointment? Total confusion about the state of our country?… leaked through, which is to be expected, I think, given the nature of the book, and of our country right now.  If you’re not ready to read stuff about people being disappointed about how things could have gone, or if you’re on Team Trump, I just want to give you a heads up: this is not for you, and that’s OK.  We’re all still kicking cancer ass together. (And I deleted what could only […]

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